Penina: As
of now we have 517 seats requested upstairs and downstairs together, including
about 50 seats being held for members who haven’t yet renewed their membership;
we will probably go beyond that number. After seating
all members, including those who have not yet renewed their membership, we
expect on Y”K night to have 15 free seats for women upstairs and an equal
number for men downstairs. The fast of Gedaliah will be absolutely the last
opportunity to renew membership for the High Holy Days!

Eudice: Additional issues: audibility of the chazzan,
supervision of the children. If parents don’t supervise their children, the
children should play outside and not disrupt the prayer services.

Noomi: A neighbor complained to me about the noise of our kids
outside on Shabbat morning.

[Others expressed skepticism about this and similar complaints.]

Michael: We should tell parents to emphasize to their children
that they must follow the orders of the greeters and others responsible.

Michael was requested to provide lists of the High Holy Day
chazzanim via Yediot Yedidya.

3.Shabbat Lekh Lekha (15-16 October) will
be a special Shabbat for new members (about 5 families). The Harris-Reiss
family has volunteered to coordinate it. The new members will be invited to
the homes of older members for Shabbat lunch. Will there be a community meal
in shul on Friday night? Debbie Kalker volunteered to organize it.

Miriam: Do we need an additional administrative assistant? Isn’t
20 hours/week enough for all the work, as it was for Phillip? We should sit
with her to see how she uses her time.

Noomi: There is much administrative work; she has events to plan,
and there are visitors during her work hours.

A suggestion was made to ask her to report periodically on how she
divides her time.

5.Building update: Jay reported that we
have a contractor, and he has begun to prepare the building for the
construction work (e.g. by setting up temporary walls), which expected to begin
soon. Expected duration of works: 3.5 - 4 months. He lowered his price
almost to the price of the contractor whom we initially chose and then rejected
in view of his previous work. Note concerning a lawsuit by a former employee
of Yedidya: the lawsuit was dropped in mid-trial, and the former employee
accepted the payment we originally offered him.

6.Programming: Noomi noted that once the
area downstairs is ready, we want to put it to use immediately, so we should
plan ahead.

7.Miscellaneous: Bob Carroll has asked to
resign from the Va’ad Menahel since he cannot attend most meetings. He
volunteers to help with selected projects.

We have received the àéùåø ðéäåì ú÷éï
from øùí äòîåúåú. Miriam noted that
Oz veShalom had recently received forms for renewal of ñòéó
46 status (for donations to be tax-exempt) from the tax authority;
Yedidya should be ready to prepare the same forms. If we have the forms from
last year, it will be much easier to prepare this year’s forms.

Noomi announced that she is stepping down as co-Chair in
November. The Va’ad members voted unanimously to invalidate the
announcement. The Va’ad members were overruled by the co-Chair.

Chana Cromer’s painting “Sulam :Ya’acov” has come down to make
room for the current exhibit of Ruth Cohn’s work, and is in storage with Laurie and Gary
Heller. It may go up again when there is no other
exhibit.

Daniel mentioned that his nephew Netanel Warschawski is organizing
an evening of study and lectures, followed by slichot hosted by families in
Sheikh Jarrakh. He has requested to hold it at Yedidya on the Thursday before
Y”K. The co-Chairs replied that on that date the Bet :Midrash uses the building,
but the previous evening is open.